Replacing stair steps

Hello everyone,

as part of the renovation, we would like to replace the stair steps with new wooden steps. I wonder if it is possible to do it step by step from top to bottom by ourselves.

The carpenter would create templates and deliver the steps to fit.

I would then start at the top and support the step below each time. Has anyone done this before? Does it work the way I think?

And then I wonder where I can get new spacers between the steps.

And then I wonder where I can get the spacers between the steps replaced.

What you so cutely call "spacers" are, despite all their delicacy, structural parts here. I have doubts whether this construction can be translated 1:1 into wood. For wooden steps, I only know the mounting methods "resting on a steel construction on both sides" (for rectangular staircase openings as here) or "around the central spindle" (for round staircase openings).

In all fairness to the joy of overestimating oneself, I do not consider this a good DIY project. Not to say: "I don't think so, Tim."

What else is planned for renovation? – I would only approach the staircase once the changes to the floor constructions are clarified (so that this can be taken into account when fitting the staircase). I can hardly think of anything more annoying than having the top step practically higher and the bottom step practically lower than all the ones in between on a renewed staircase.

By the way: such a tasty little stone step is balanced around by three people, or worked on by several people with professional lifting gear. You can’t just hold it "briefly with the other hand."

The house is being completely renovated/refurbished. Walls, doors, floors, screed, etc...

You have a bolt staircase. The staircase is self-supporting. I would consider replacing it completely. Getting an offer for it won't hurt, and leave the old staircase in as a construction staircase. I suspect it won't make much of a difference in price. Because at the latest when you have replaced the steps, you will also think about the railing. And I wouldn't necessarily recommend DIY for something like that.

You have a bolt staircase. The staircase is self-supporting. I would consider replacing it completely.

I would consider leaving it in. There are less than ten years left until this trend comes back again. You will never get avant-garde so cheap again.

Apart from that, many pay a huge surcharge for a granite staircase! But tastes are different after all...